What is World Wide Web?
World Wide Web (also called WWW and W3) is a global hypermedia-based information system. Selected text is linked to other files, possibly located on other nodes in the network, using the WWW native language, HTML (hypertext markup language). World Wide Web was developed by CERN the European laboratory for Particle Physics. To access the World Wide Web, you run a browser program such as Netscape or lynx. Browser programs are available for Windows, Macintosh, Unix, and other platforms.